Valjean wrote:
      > 
      >    This is really frustrating me....all I want to do is telnet
into my
      > machine running Mandrake 7.0......when I installed it the first
time, I
      > could do it.  Every install since then I have not not been able
to.  I
      > have installed the telnet server package from the second cd with
the
      > rpm -ivh packagename.rpm and the telnet line is uncommented in
my
      > /etc/inetd.conf...so why can't I telnet to my machine?  is there
some
      > other thing to setup?  What do I have to do to get this thing to
work?

I had this happen.  It turned out that the inetd *itself* was not being
started up.
Check your favorite run-level editor for that.

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